Al-NahdaWhosWho
WHO is Who for new Al-Nahda Academy
ELIJAH ACHIEK PANCHOL
Elijah is working to establish a computer literacy and STEM learning center for high school-aged refugee children in Cairo, Egypt. The center will be a tech hub and a high school where students will learn programming, electronics, mathematics, and other sciences. The center’s name is Al-nahda Innovative Academy (Al-Nahda is an Arabic word meaning Renaissance).
Elijah Achiek is a 27-year-old South Sudanese living as an Asylum seeker in Cairo, Egypt. He recently graduated from Cairo University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Systems and Biomedical Engineering. He had been working as a part-time teacher in one of the Refugee Schools in Cairo (African Hope Learning Center: Link https://africanhopelc.com/) where he taught Mathematics and Computer Literacy for four years.
Elijah is a committed instructor, activist, leader, and enthusiastic pioneer who believes in collaboration, sacrifice, and commitment as means to accomplish great things. He is a proactive member of several student associations and civil societies at Cairo University and his South Sudanese community in Egypt.
Here is Elijah's backstory from when he was a 10 year old child in a Refugee camp. ELI's STORY
TERRY KING
Terry King is an 83 year old Engineer who lives in Cairo, Egypt this school year and is working with Elijah to create the Al-Nahda Academy. terry@terryking.us
Terry started soldering circuits over 70 years ago. He is an Engineer who has designed radio stations, recording studios, broadcast equipment, intelligent machines and special computer languages for IBM, and has worked as a broadcast journalist covering elections, fires, riots and Woodstock. He has worked on Computers that Sense and Control "Things" for the past 45 years, from Automated machines to Chip Testers to Home/Building Automation and now Arduino and ESP32 for many different applications. He has 'retired' several times during the past 20 years, and followed his wife Mary Alice in living in Africa, China and the Middle East, now in Egypt, bringing his Electronics Lab and Camera with him. Now he is writing the http://ArduinoInfo.Info WIKI and running the shop at [YourDuino.com] with Mary Alice and our good Chinese friend Jun Peng. In the past year he started a school in Cairo, Egypt with his friend Elijah Aichek to teach computer science and electronics to refugees from South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia etc. Now he is back in Vermont working remotely and cutting firewood.
Our Beginnings teaching STEM in Cairo
Terry and Elijah started teaching Electricity, Arduino and STEM to a few kids in Cairo a couple of months ago now. We did two Arduino projects ("Who has the warmest Hands" - Temperature sensors) and ("Ultrasonic distance measurement" - Arduino sensors) which you can see on the table in this photo. Elijah is the tallest guy on the left and Terry is the old guy on the right :-)
